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Google Cloud Shell – First steps with google cloud shell.

The first step, take a look at this official webpage to see how you can start Google Cloud Shell. Using the online terminal, you can start using the shell with Google Linux distro like any Linux. Let’s see some information and commands used by Google Cloud Shell:

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$ uname -a
Linux cs-771133650849-default-boost-j25gz 5.4.104+ #1 SMP Fri Apr 30 09:52:02 PDT 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
...
$ apt-get install irssi
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You are running apt-get inside of Cloud Shell. Note that your Cloud Shell
machine is ephemeral and no system-wide change will persist beyond session end.
 
To suppress this warning, create an empty ~/.cloudshell/no-apt-get-warning file.
The command will automatically proceed in 5 seconds or on any key.
 
Visit https://cloud.google.com/shell/help for more information.
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E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
...
$ sudo su
root@cs-771133650849-default-boost-j25gz:/home/catalinfest# apt-get install irssi
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You are running apt-get inside of Cloud Shell. Note that your Cloud Shell
machine is ephemeral and no system-wide change will persist beyond session end.
 
To suppress this warning, create an empty ~/.cloudshell/no-apt-get-warning file.
The command will automatically proceed in 5 seconds or on any key.
 
Visit https://cloud.google.com/shell/help for more information.
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  irssi-scripts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  irssi
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,177 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,910 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 irssi amd64 1.2.0-2 [1,177 kB]
Fetched 1,177 kB in 0s (14.7 MB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package irssi.
(Reading database ... 116563 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../irssi_1.2.0-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking irssi (1.2.0-2) ...
Setting up irssi (1.2.0-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
...
# exit
exit
$ irssi
 
[1]+  Stopped                 irssi

Using the apt-get install package command I… Read More »

Google – Starting development with Google and Google Assistant – part 004.

The tutorial for today is about system entities in Dialogflow. Each intent parameter has a type, called the entity type. Because are many entities then you need a system entity. The system entities allow agents to extract information like address, emails, currency, and phone numbers, favorite options like colors, foods, or any piece of information… Read More »

Google – Starting development with Google and Google Assistant – part 003.

I used the Default Welcome Intent to add the new option for my assistant with GOOGLE ASSISTANT. The GOOGLE ASSISTANT comes with many features like a rich response. Use a rich response if you want to display visual elements to enhance user interactions with your Action. These visual elements can provide hints on how to… Read More »

Google – Starting development with Google and Google Assistant – part 002.

In this part of the tutorial, I will show you how to create the content for the assistant. At this moment Google provides a good tool named Dialogflow Console and a new tool with a billing required option named Dialogflow CX agent. Let’s start with basic settings for Dialogflow online tool in order to build responses… Read More »

Google – Starting development with Google and Google Assistant – part 001.

An application programming interface (API) is a computing interface that defines interactions between multiple software applications or mixed hardware-software intermediaries. – see Wikipedia. A software development kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package. They facilitate the creation of applications by having a compiler, debugger, and perhaps a software framework.… Read More »

C# – First steps with C# and .NET – part 014 .

Google team comes with this intro for Google Shell: When you start Cloud Shell, it provisions a e2-small Google Compute Engine virtual machine running a Debian-based Linux operating system. Cloud Shell instances are provisioned on a per-user, per-session basis. The instance persists while your Cloud Shell session is active; after an hour of inactivity, your… Read More »

C# – First steps with C# and .NET – part 012 .

In this tutorial, I will show you how to start using Google Cloud Platform with Visual Studio 2019 and C#. The main goal is to create a Cloud Storage buckets. First, create a console project into your Visual Studio 2019 I.D.E. Open the cloud google.com dotnet webpage and use Try It Free option. This allows… Read More »